There She Blows!: A Whaling YarnE.P. Dutton, 1909 - 287 pagina's |
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aloft Anton ashore Avola bark Bedford began blubber boatsteerer bull bunk called canoes canvas Captain Bourne cask caught chief mate cocoanut crew dead eyes face fast Fayal Joe feet fellow Fletcher flukes forecastle foremast hands forward fourth mate gave harpoon hauled Haveron head heard hook hundred iron Island Jonas kill knew lance lone bull looked lower Luckawarre mast masthead mile morning Morrison natives night Nikolas officers Old Man's port watch Portuguese pulled quarter deck rail Ranzo rigging Sacred Sacred Ben sail sailor second mate seemed ship ship's shore side sight skipper Slush spade sperm whale spermaceti stand starboard boat starboard watch steering oar stern sheets Stoddard stood stowed tackle Thar she blows thing told Tom Morrison took Tugwell turned Uncle Zene waist whale boat wind windlass Yankee yards
Populaire passages
Pagina 172 - ... through our Lord Jesus Christ, who, at his coming, shall change our vile body, that it may be like unto his glorious body, according to the mighty working whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself.
Pagina 172 - Book may be used ; only instead of these words [We therefore commit his body to the ground, earth to earth, <fe.] say, \\7~E therefore commit his body to the deep, to be turned into corruption, looking for the resurrection of the body, (when the sea shall give up her dead,) and the life of the world to come...
Pagina 73 - Two times one are two; two times two are four; two times three are six;" or "Ge, ge, o, geo; gra-, geogra ; phy, fy, geography!
Pagina 194 - It turned out one of the most foolish things I ever did in my life. I took him by the scuff of the neck as he bobbed above the water, saying: "Lay over on your back, Silva. I'll get you out all right.
Pagina 87 - For the next seven months it formed the apex of a triangle of which the other two points were the RKO studio in Hollywood and Universal, across the Pass, in the Valley.
Pagina 117 - ... or a tenth of a small plug of tobacco for a bunch of bananas, or a string of fifteen or twenty green cocoa nuts, the bargain was eagerly accepted.
Pagina 41 - The badly constructed road was rough, and the pony, who seemed to have little relish for his mldulght jaunt, stumbled more than once. The weather had changed for the worse. The wind had risen, and was now blowing a gale In the priest's face. Fitful moonbeams filtered through the scudding clouds, and the forest loomed lone and ghostly under the rays. Father Louis had ridden for perhaps a mile, when in a gleam of moonlight he saw a man walking slowly ahead in the same direction as himself. The figure...
Pagina 80 - Madeira unpopular with the disappointed men, and one of them gave him a sound thrashing as soon as he had sufficiently recovered from the effects of the cocoanut to stand it.
Pagina 221 - I gave it a heave with the long steering oar that turned it at right angles to the course we had been pursuing.